Chapter 66 Audition Alan

Mark Their preparations were effective and fast, and in this place where money is everything, all the work unfolded quickly after their funds were in place.

They recruited crews, signed contracts to work together, went to Warner Studios to pick and rent equipment, and there were several vacant rooms in MM that were used to stack equipment.

Mark is very busy, every time he recruits a crew member, he must personally interview and understand, and there is the audition of the actors, like several leading actors, is to determine the list, but the necessary process such as audition must still be there, the actor's makeup photos, costume makeup photos, etc. must also be done.

They sent out a recruitment advertisement to the Screen Actors Guild, recruiting more than a dozen actors, this time Blake got the role of Queen Caesar's front desk lady, a small role with a few lines, as for Doug's wife Tracy Garner, grandfather Sid Garner, Stu's girlfriend Melissa, **** Joden, Mr. Zhou and other roles with lines, they were recruited through auditions, this is a movie released six years in advance, it is impossible to find the original people one by one, fortunately there is one that is recognized by Hollywood, no one is irreplaceable.

Like Phil, Mark couldn't have found the original Bradley Cooper, who debuted in '98 through the TV series "Sex and the City", and also served as the host of the travel TV show "Bitter Traveler of the Wild World" produced by the travel publishing giant, which aired on the Discovery Channel, and in 2001, he played a gay man in his first film "Hala Summer Camp", and soon after, starred in the TV series "Double Faced Agent" produced by Ebbs and led by Jennifer Garner, and later starred in the TV movie "The True Meaning of Love" and the TV series "Jack and Bobby", who is well-known in the TV industry, and his worth and popularity are not below Hiss, but everyone has selfish intentions, so Mark chose to let his friend Heath go on.

Doug is named the protagonist, with fewer scenes, Mark handed him over to Mason, Mason is the son of producer Tom, Blake's brother, Mark's flattery is very obvious, and Mason has cooperated with Mark in "This Man is from Earth" and "Chainsaw", and even Meghan does not dare to have any objections to this relationship.

Like the role of Dormi's father Sid, John is more interested, he participated in the audition, but his jigsaw in "Chainsaw" was too deep, and the kind of God-like condescending gaze at all beings was not what Mark wanted, and his smile made Mark have a sense of gloom and compassion, so he directly vetoed it.

Mark wants a humorous and empathetic grandfather under the serious surface, so he auditioned for someone.

As for the key role in the film, Allen, Mark is not sure six years in advance, Zach, the fat man, can provoke the beam, responsible for the responsibility of being funny, his beard is not thick enough, Zach is now just a small role, only played a role in some small production cost movies, he doesn't earn much, just enough to make ends meet, the important thing every day is to throw in his resume, and then go to major studios to find opportunities, play tricks, he is a registered member of the Actors' Union, but he doesn't even have an agent, he relies on himself to stumble and roll looking for opportunities, this time he received an invitation from MM Pictures, he was almost happy。

He didn't know where MM Pictures was, but it didn't prevent him from being happy, the film company took the initiative to make an invitation, this was the first time, Zach dressed himself up, dressed neatly and came to the Dewey Building half an hour in advance, Ruby auditioned for Zack, he handed the script to Zack and asked him to audition a few passages.

This Ghanaian Alan is a mentally retarded and autistic fool, but this guy thinks of himself as a rain man, likes to talk nonsense seriously, which makes people look funny and funny, his funny way is not with body language, or Jim Carrey's exaggerated expression, but with cold humor, serious funny, Zach is to follow the process of putting on his resume, after introducing himself, according to Ruby's requirements to perform.

In Hollywood, many movie scripts, unless they are written specifically for someone, are not suitable, you have to go through the audition to know, the producer because he has no bottom, often according to the process of selection and selection, try and try, looking for the most suitable actor, this suitability includes many aspects, mainly value, like Tom Hanks, that superstar, there is no such thing as saying that the role cannot be played, or whether it is suitable, the key is their value, not every crew can afford it, of course, the script that impresses them to join is also the key.

Zack was a little nervous, how afraid he was of the other party to ask him to go back and wait for news after the performance, but Ruby didn't do it, he asked the makeup artist to put on a makeup for Zack, wearing a tight T-shirt, wearing a men's satchel, looking at himself in the mirror, with a small belly, and his appearance was not handsome, he felt bottomless, but Ruby seemed a little satisfied, and informed him that the director Mark would talk to him.

This made Zach can't help but wave his fist excitedly, which means that he has passed the test, and his acting skills have touched some people, otherwise the director would not have met him in person.

In fact, Mark has been watching through the reverse glass in another room during the audition, at this time Zack is twenty-seven years old, has no professional training, only attends acting night school, and walked into this circle because of interest, he is slightly chubby, full of beard, in the place where handsome guys and beauties are gathered, it looks inconspicuous, and because of his appearance, he has not been able to get any good roles.

At this time, Zack, who has only been in Hollywood for three years, has no acting skills at all, and his performance is still in the initial stage of imitation, and he looks young and restrained, but the original version is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Mark will look at him differently, the original Zach has been honed in Hollywood for ten years, after countless successes and failures, honed his own way of acting, and he also had a good performance in the acting genius Sean Fan's masterpiece "Wilderness Survival", he won the role with his strength, and then became famous in one fell swoop.

As far as the current situation is concerned, his acting skills are good, there are no characteristics, and he can't impress people, but Mark has his own original reference, and he can train this guy well, so he can have a later conversation.

The main content of this conversation was to ask him about his understanding of the role and how to play the role, Zach was quite smart, and he said that the director asked me to play how I wanted.

This time Mark asked him to put on a pair of underwear, the front is normal, the back is two elastic bands, strangled his buttocks, when Xiao Zha was wearing a suit, full of bad taste of joy, everyone who saw it couldn't help but laugh, Mark pointed at him and said loudly: "The role is yours." ”

"The Hangover" has a perfect comedy framework, four men who are crazy in Las Vegas, after a night of hangover, find that the groom who was going to get married is gone, and then there is an extra tiger in the room, and the plot introduction ends abruptly, leaving a very absurd nonsensical suspense, it is this suspense that attracts many people to line up to see this movie, and at a cost of more than 30 million, it won the box office of 200 million US dollars in North America.

Judd Apatow, who came out of nowhere last year, has created a new era of cheap dramas after "American Pie", and "The Hangover" borrows the fragmentation advantage of road movies to ridicule the classic routines of all genres.

"The Hangover" is really a perfect comedy shell, in this story, the director unscrupulously added gangster transactions, police-people harmony, Tyson raising tigers, daddy and baby and other independent plots, so that the laughter of the film detonates one by one in an appropriate rhythm, so that the audience's viewing pleasure is maintained at a coherent high level, just like others sell hamburgers, I sell Big Macs, both raw materials and ingredients are much richer, even if the audience eats a bite and spills some on the ground, it can survive half to death.

In addition, it has to be mentioned that the director did not show too many traces of axe and chisel in the process of arranging the connection of various paragraphs, but let the incident naturally get worse and worse. And there is also a relatively complete foreshadowing, such as the tiger is Tyson's, the child is a stripper, and the gangster and the naked man in the trunk are in a gang...... This allows the story to come to life as a whole, without the appearance of a deliberate plot designed to create laughter.

There are several scenes that can be called classics, such as the more impressive part where the big fat man and the little fat man have a feud in the police station, the big fat man kicks off the little fat man's mobile phone, and the little fat man uses an electric baton to explode the big fat man's head, and the little actor is a genius.

At the end, the film said the central idea of the main creator through the mouth of the dentist: men should let go of what they want to do, as a man, they should feel very cool to see this, and say to all the women who try to be strict with their wives: "See your mother's big-headed ghost." ”

"The Hangover" can break the record held by "Beverly Hills Detective" for more than ten years, naturally there is something outstanding, Mark chose it as his debut, which is to make MM Pictures an instant hit, and then get the opportunity to direct a superhero blockbuster, Mark knows that he has no artistic talent, and he can't create anything talented and artistic, he just cooks the selected movies according to the version, and wins awards and box office without awards, and the movies he chooses are all blockbuster movies at the box office.

Entering Hollywood or the film industry, whether it is for ideals or life, in the end there will only be two kinds of people, either fame or fortune, and fame and fortune are common here, Mark at this stage is fighting for fame and fortune, when he is famous and profitable, he can stand firm and make the movies he wants to make.

Mark doesn't want to be a producer like Michael Bay who is complained about selling copies, nor does he want to be a pure art film director like Woody Allen, so high that he doesn't seem to eat fireworks in the world, Nolan is a role model for him to learn, he can make art films and literary films, and both.

It can be said that a "Saw Horror" is enough to make him stand firm, but to become popular, he still has to rely on "The Hangover".